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By following these prescriptions, we shall 

 answer all the conditions of the treatment 

 during the second period. In truth, by the 

 process of bleeding, we shall have reduced the 

 heat of the fever, and prevented too great a 

 flow towards the nervous, pulmonary, or diges- 

 tive centres. The purgings will have acted 

 with similar effects ; and, what is more, they 

 will have cleared the primce vice, and rendered 

 the circulation of the abdominal apparatus 

 more easy. In fine, the drinks will have con- 

 tributed to assuage the violence of the fever. 

 The washing, which must be effected with a 

 wet sponge passed over the nose, mouth, and 

 eyes, and then over the skin, which must after- 

 wards be rubbed dry, will be both useful and 

 pleasant to the sick animal. This cleansing 

 will maintain the important functions of the 

 skin in due order. 



Some persons have advocated as most effica- 

 cious at this period hydro-therapia, or the 

 Water-cure, in the form of warm and cold 

 ablutions, vapour baths, &c. This treatment, 

 so bracing by its revulsive action, and the 

 powerful influence of which we witnessed for 

 several years in the establishment which we 



